Immigrant worker dies in factory accident

POLICE have identified a worker killed in an accident at a factory near Dumfries.

Renatas Timofejevas, a 36-year-old Lithuanian, was working at the Alba Proteins plant when he was fatally injured on Tuesday.

Dumfries and Galloway Police and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating.

A police spokesman said Mr Timofejevas' family in Lithuania had been informed of his death.